Not to toot my own flues, but when I undertook to make this transcription, I had no intention to imitate Ferruccio Busoni's great transcriptions of Bach's organ works. After finishing the first draft, I stumbled upon an essay by Busoni entitled "On the Transcription of Bach's Organ Works for the Pianoforte", published as an appendix to a collection of his transcriptions, in which I discovered, barring some ROOKIE MISTAKES, that I had unwittingly incorporated many of the ideas that the Great Master himself wrote about.
The following is an illuminating quote from the essay:
"The editor regards the interpretation of Bach's organ-pieces on the pianoforte as essential to a complete pianistic study of Bach. He demands that every piano-player should not only know and master all such transcriptions hitherto published, but should also be able independently to transcribe for the pianoforte organ-compositions by Bach. Should he neglect to do so, he will only half know Bach."
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Not to toot my own flues, but when I undertook to make this transcription, I had no intention to imitate Ferruccio Busoni's great transcriptions of Bach's organ works. After finishing the first draft, I stumbled upon an essay by Busoni entitled "On the Transcription of Bach's Organ Works for the Pianoforte", published as an appendix to a collection of his transcriptions, in which I discovered, barring some ROOKIE MISTAKES, that I had unwittingly incorporated many of the ideas that the Great Master himself wrote about.
The following is an illuminating quote from the essay:
"The editor regards the interpretation of Bach's organ-pieces on the pianoforte as essential to a complete pianistic study of Bach. He demands that every piano-player should not only know and master all such transcriptions hitherto published, but should also be able independently to transcribe for the pianoforte organ-compositions by Bach. Should he neglect to do so, he will only half know Bach."
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